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Dual booting Linux Mint and Vista (Vista installed first)?

Posted on July 9, 2010 by admin| 6 Comments

When I get to the partitioning step of Felicia (from the Live CD), it just says “no root file system defined” or something, obviously I need to set the mount point of (in my case /dev/sda2) and set it to mount point “/”.

My question is how do I do that? There is no option to change the mount point, when i mount it in Computer, it just auto mounts to /Media/disk.

Here is a picture of my gParted, http://img26.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gpart.png

btw i cannot format the whole drive because /dev/sda1 has windows and my files on it.

Help!
the apc guide was the first thing i tried, dont be cheap trying to score two point by stating the obvious. and also that guide is designed for Ubuntu not Mint, even though Mint is based on Ubuntu it is slightly different.
maybe i need to do something in terminal?

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My computer wont recognize my OS disc?

Posted on July 8, 2010 by admin| 1 Comment

Well its not going to be my computer, its one i made for my sisters. But thats not the point. It only seems to want to boot certain OS discs ive made. It will boot some linux live cds, but not others. And now it wont boot the windows xp disc ive made. I know that none of these discs ive made are defective because they’ve all worked on a seperate computer. Is this a bios related issue?

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I would like to build an Integrated Web Server that supports uploading and downloading files, but how?

Posted on July 7, 2010 by admin| 2 Comments

There is a great program called “Easy File Sharing Web Server” (http://www.file-sharing.com) that does exactly what I want to do. However, it costs money that I do not want to put down at this point.

I did some research and found I can create an Integrated Web Server with Apache (http://www.appservnetwork.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=46). I’ve configured all my ports and got a basic webpage to come up.

Now I need to build a webpage that allows:
- Users to log in
- Users to upload and download files

I know very basic HTML, so I would need to find a free HTML editor that could assist me with this. Particularly building an interface to upload and download files. (I don’t even know where to start with this.)

Does anyone have any recommendations? Does anyone know if there is a Live CD (linux or otherwise) that can provide this sort of setup?

Any help would be appreciated. I know what I’m asking for is complex.

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windows vs. Linux Debian Ubuntu, DSL etc etc?

Posted on June 26, 2010 by admin| 5 Comments

simple questions. Can you use linux the same way you use windows? does it use a point and click interface? Do you have to know a lot about command line and do you have to build your operating system? or can you just pop in a live cd like windows and everything more or less is done for you? I’m sick of Windows Linux users could you give me some feedback?
Thanks
What I’m looking for is a version that has a gui like you said your grandmother is using Ubuntu. I need something that will support a virtual PBX like FreePBX or something and hopefully install it for me. Maybe CentOS? Ideas?
I’m also operating under the assumption that command line is like command prompt in windows. Correct? I have had some experience with that. It’s just that there are so many flavors. I tried a dual boot with an Ubuntu ISO and got 187 instances(basically systemic) of keylogger .com It could’ve just com from the mirror but I was on the Official Ubuntu site. Also why do you say that Debian is slower? That was my first choice considering I’m running HP AMD64

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Whats the best way to get rid of spyware/viruses without formatting?

Posted on June 26, 2010 by admin| 5 Comments

I’ve been building and repairing pc systems as a hobby for about seven years now. My worst nightmare (and this seems to be the majority of my work) is a windows pc full of spyware, and sometimes viruses, to the point where the pc is too crippled to even run anti-spyware/anti-virus software on it. I usually end up backing up important documents using a Linux Live-CD, then format and reinstall, but in a lot of cases, the customer has neglected to tell me about some of the stuff they needed to keep, or they assumed that it came with windows, and then later they’re surprised when something is missing, but by that time its too late to get it back. So how does your average technician deal with these things?

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